Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.

We’re uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It’s classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.

The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who’ve happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and who actually credit the book with helping them through a...

Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

I didn’t view myself as attacking the boss. I viewed my boss at ESPN as the publisher and president of ESPN.

We are not out to boast that there is so much percentage of growth per year. Our real concern is how it affects the lives of people, the future of our country.

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.

Having chosen to set the book during this period, from the first day I was writing, I knew I was going to have to do something about World War Two.

There’s nothing secret about it. Everyone knows that I am waiting for my real parents, the king and queen, to come restore me to my rightful throne.

My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

I realize that when I moved out of my father’s house I shocked and frightened him because I needed a room of my own, a space of my own to reinvent myself.

The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where...

If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you’ll achieve the same results.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

When we go into an industry, we go all the way.

Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction – namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years.

And what we know, or think we know, about the universe of space and time is changing very quickly.

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

It was actually a very nice little book done by a gift book company. They illustrated it with pictures from 1920s football, before there were face guards.

We want to empower our people; we want to strengthen them; we want to provide them with the kind of qualifications that will enable them to build up their own country themselves.

I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I’m working on. Once I figure it out, that’s the only thing I’ll play.

In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch that is, who should be listened to and when.

I wasn’t involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They asked me at one point to write a memo about what I thought...

Value manifests itself as exchange value, as a quantitatively determined relationship, in virtue of the fact that one commodity can be exchanged for another.

People first, then money, then things.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it’s the cyanide.

When people are like each other they tend to like each other.

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I’m talking about an organic computer – about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.

I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.

Until the end of the last Ice Age around 11,000 B.C., all humans on all continents were still living as Stone Age hunter/gatherers.

I wouldn’t like to just do one story or one type of stories all the time.

As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.

And if there was something, suppose I wanted to write something really damning or embarrassing about one of the owners, that would really be a problem on the NFL’s site.

You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body – by judicious, daily exercise.

Catholic writers constantly have characters struggling against their fates, or trying to divine the meaning of their lives, usually failing.

I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.

People don’t come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

So it was scary, but that’s how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong.

Oh, and for capturing the wonder and magic of fairy tales and turning that into fresh and modern stories, there is no one around to the Neil Gaiman.

I’m trying to get to a point here of how much progress we’ve made in this business. Were you able to find that diverse crew that you wanted?

I was in a bad mood when I wrote that.

The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and savor variations of the kind best appreciated if most days are the same.

Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation.